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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:16 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: dwmw2@...radead.org, paulus@...ba.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
flar@...andria.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100
>
> > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane*
> > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one
> > bad hack.
>
> Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports,
> properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching
> console selection.
Well yes, but it seems to have code in the architecture's early
command line parsing to parse the "console=" argument to set this
magical "serial_console" variable.
Is this an approach you recommend for all architectures?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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